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title: "Thou child of perdition, I will yet carry out my purpose!" cried th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Thou child of perdition, I will yet carry out my purpose!" cried the Bishop of Borglum. " Who acts: Thou, Bishop, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 42

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"Thou child of perdition, I will yet carry out my purpose!" cried the Bishop of Borglum. "

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**Who acts:** Thou, Bishop, my · **What happens:** child, carry out, cry, purpose · **To what, where:** purpose · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, Bishop, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:12:42
# text = "Thou child of perdition, I will yet carry out my purpose!" cried the Bishop of Borglum. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	perdition	perdition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
16	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Bishop	Bishop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Borglum	Borglum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **child** *in a quote* |  | Thou |  |  |  |  | of perdition | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry out** *in a quote* | future | the Bishop of Borglum *= bishop* | my purpose |  |  | yet |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Eventuality |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the Bishop of Borglum |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **purpose** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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